suavium

• (older) sāvium n

From suāvis +‎ -ium; the reduction of labialized /sʷ/ to /s/ in the form sāvium is is due to dissimilation (as in sāvillum, variant of suāvillum).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʷaː.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsʷaː.vi.um]

suāvium n (genitive suāviī or suāvī); second declension

1. a kiss

   Synonyms: bāsium, ōsculum

2. a sweetheart

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (kiss): bāsium n, ōsculum n

• suāvior

• → Italian: suavio, soavio (semi-learned)

• “suavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “suavium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.